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Blogging the Rest of My Walk in the Dark with FAITH Story…

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I cannot begin to tell you how many times I wanted to get past what I thought was a failed attempt at writing a book series about my faith walk; I did it mainly because the Lord put that challenge in my lap and said to run with it. Initially, I thought it was my ticket to not only exercising my gifts and talents the Lord gave me to write and share my faith with others, but also to help me out financially. Boy was I wrong.

It’s more than obvious now after almost four years since I released my first book in the WITDWF series, that this was never supposed to help me out financially. In fact, I didn’t break $100 in royalties until last year. Even though I wrote a second book in the series, plus also two devotionals (one that was illustrated and cost a lot to make), nevertheless, nothing came out of it.

I was led to continue in my biblical studies this whole time in grad school/seminary (Liberty University School of Divinity), after graduating from Stockton in December, 2021 with a BA in Latin and the Romance Languages (French, Spanish), and with Minors in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Jewish Studies. But I do not want to get too ahead of the story here. What I have decided to do, is not write the third book of the series to publish it in book form, but to just share it here on my blog page. I also will do this with the other writing project that has been spinning around in my head for some time, dealing with God and His Word, the Most High God, His Son, the role of the Holy Spirit, and where the Body of Christ was to fit in all of what He planned to do, until the Time of the End and the commencement of the coming Judgment.

If anyone has written a book, or a long enough paper in college (the longest one I’ve done so far was about 30+ pages; most have been 15-25+pages), and if you have done it several times over for each class, you know after a while how time consuming and tiring it can be to complete the task. Of course, when the assignment is accomplished and all your hard work pays off with a good enough grade you can be satisfied with, it not only gives you peace, but also it honors God in finishing the task He called you to accomplish in the first place.

I do not pretend to be the world’s best writer/blogger/author; I’m far from it. But–I do want to continue to be obedient to the call that was put on my heart to do for the LORD God. So, even though I am not completing my work in book form, at least I am willing to share it on my blog page, and on social media, for others to hopefully be encouraged, strengthened, and blessed by. I am one not full of fanciful words; I am rather plain and simple most of the time, and I do eventually get to the point of each part of the story I will share with you, so be patient. I pray that you will get something out of what I share with you. My faith walk has not been an easy one; then again, whose faith walk is ever easy, when Adonai Elohim is at the helm and directing our steps?

Some parts of my faith walk will be surprising, especially to those who have known me for most of my life; others who have not known me too long, some of what I share may not sound too extraordinary. But everything I do share with you, is the TRUTH; I need not embellish or dramatize anything in order for you the reader to be impressed in any way. I will share with you what has happened to me since the end of January, 2020, up until the present day. If you need to catch up on how it all began with me, I suggest to get my first two books in the WITDWF series; it will make much more sense to you as I move forward and share the rest of my faith journey. You will see just how far I’ve also come and grown spiritually, and how the challenges of the Lord have gotten a bit more difficult along the way, especially in the last year or so.

If you decide to follow along with me while I share my faith journey, I thank you. Please make sure to like my posts, subscribe for the emails so you don’t miss any of my future blog posts. I will try and write a couple of times each week (don’t want to overload myself or you–we are all busy with life and what we each have to do); I’ll just trust in the Holy Spirit to lead and guide me in all that He wants me to share with you in each blog post.

Again, thank you in advance for following me and taking the time out to read my faith journey in these posts.

The Passover Lamb Fulfills the Spring Feasts

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https://youtu.be/SSLBcHglEm4?si=DHwaISGAeWN1s8hz

OK–I tried to send this out on Holy Thursday, and when I tell you that not only did it mysteriously “disappear” while I was writing it out, but THEN, my whole computer was acting up so much, I had to shut it down and restart it a few times over. Long story short (and by this time, after “checking” ✅all the “logical” boxes to see what was wrong, I knew this was the work of the evil ones, not just some weird computer glitch)–I ended up having to RESET my WINDOWS on the computer🤦‍♀️😫!! I was soooooo ticked off!

As all of that was happening, I was reminded by the Spirit that “This IS the time of the Black Sabbath sacrifices–remember?”😯🤔–Yep–I knew it, but I honestly try NOT to “go there” mentally, but instead concentrate on all that’s going on with Holy Week, and then Tridium. BUT–the evil ones😠somehow had the “ability” and were allowed to mess with my computer, and did just that to tick me off, and NOT send this out when I wanted to.😒

BUT–here it is NOW; I always😉was a very persistent child, which the Lord loves about me–I’m not a quitter. I’ll get the job done, even if there are blockades in the way.

PLEASE take the time out to watch this video by “So Be It”–Jewish believers in Yeshua; it is an EXCELLENT video, and explains more than what I went through here.

The MAIN THINGS I wanted to share and POINT OUT to you in this video that obviously the evil ones HATE to have people finally understand, are these:

Exodus 12:3-6; and also 7-13 —PESACH/PASSOVER comes from THIS passage, which happened after the 10 plagues. The LORD instructed his people to apply the BLOOD OF THE LAMB on the doorpost and lintels of their homes, to PROTECT them from the Angel of the LORD who was to strike down the 1st born male in each family (10th plague).

JOHN 1:29–John the Baptist sees his cousin Jesus come toward him, and John then shouted out, “BEHOLD the LAMB of GOD, Who takes away the SIN of the world!”

✨✨JESUS was crucified ON PASSOVER, which is the FIRST NIGHT ONLY in the week of THREE DIFFERENT SPRING FEASTS✨✨–I’ll get to that amazing information in a bit…

📖REVELATION 5:6,12 and 13:8 speaks of a LAMB Who was slain, and those in Heaven at that time sing praises to Him saying, “Worthy is the LAMB Who was SLAIN…” It also speaks of how whoever takes the mark of the Beast/AntiChrist, THEIR NAMES will NOT be “in the book of LIFE of the LAMB Who was SLAIN” (Rev. 13:8).

YESHUA WAS that PESACH/PASSOVER LAMB, Who gave His life up for ALL of His Creation. As the very popular but true verse says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, that WHOSOEVER believes IN Him (Yeshua) should NOT perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE” (Jn. 3:16).

He IS the living📖WORD of God (Jn. 1:1,14) Who was with the Father and the Holy Spirit AT the CREATION of the WORLD (Genesis 1:1, Colossians 1:16), because in Colossians 1:15 St. Paul the Apostle STATES that “HE (Yeshua) is the IMAGE (that means one can SEE Him!) of the INVISIBLE GOD (the Father), the FIRSTBORN of all creation.” That does NOT mean He was the first to be CREATED, because not only IS the Lord Jesus ONE (Echad) with the Father and the Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit AT the time of Creation, verse 16 SPELLS it out for the reader that “FOR BY HIM (JESUS)ALL THINGS were CREATED, in HEAVEN (that means the angels, other supernatural celestial beings, etc.) and on EARTH (humans, animals, plants, the EARTH itself, etc.) VISIBLE and INVISIBLE—“

In Colossians verse 19 it stated, “For IN HIM (JESUS) ALL the FULNESS of GOD was pleased to DWELL (just like the HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS in EACH CHILD OF GOD that has repented and accepted Christ as their LORD and SAVIOR).

EMMANUEL = GOD WITH US–it’s RIGHT THERE, folks!

and PLEASE try and UNDERSTAND THIS NEXT PART—“…whether THRONES or DOMINIONS or RULERS or AUTHORITIES–✨those are the angelic hierarchy that the TRIUNE GODHEAD created–they are mentioned in both the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS, especially in the letters of Paul.

The ANGELS–both GOOD and EVIL (and their offspring!) play a HUGE PART in ALL that has been going on in this world SINCE Genesis 3 took place–the FALL of mankind in the Garden of Eden. I’ll speak more about that again at another time, God willing. I just wanted to point that out to you, because of what PAUL said in verse 20 of Colossians–
“and THROUGH HIM (Jesus) to reconcile to Himself ALL THINGS, whether on Earth OR IN ✨HEAVEN✨(because of the fallen angels that sinned, and helped to deceive mankind into thinking they didn’t need to worship the Most High God alone, but could worship no god [atheistic] or any number of gods [polytheism] as many of them did back then, and TO THIS DAY), making PEACE by the BLOOD 🩸OF HIS ✝️CROSS.”

GETTING BACK to the THREE DIFFERENT SPRING FEASTS
Any one of my Jewish friends can attest this to be true!

“Passover” is the general term for the EIGHT DAYS of the THREE feasts; the FIRST night is “Erev Pesach” (Passover Eve) —
✨PESACH/PASSOVER is technically only on the FIRST DAY-when the sacrifice of the LAMBS are being done (that’s the DAY when Jesus was crucified–“Good Friday”, which was a high holiday Shabbat);—see 1 Corinthians 15:3;
✨FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD is the remaining days in the week; –see 1 Corinthians 15:4a (Christ buried in the tomb on that Friday night–remaining in there throughout all day Saturday)
✨FEAST of FIRST FRUITS is the DAY after Shabbat, right after the Feast of Unleavened Bread–THIS DAY of FIRST FRUITS is SUNDAY (for us this year, April 20th)–which coincides with RESURRECTION SUNDAY–hence the Lord Jesus gathering the FIRST FRUITS of all the OT saints waiting in the “Paradise Section” of SHEOL! –see 1 Corinthians 15:4a

AND–to have more Scripture back THAT up, especially all those saints being RESURRECTED along with the Lord Jesus–see Matthew 27:52-53–
“The TOMBS also were opened. And MANY BODIES of the SAINTS who had fallen asleep (died) were RAISED, and ✨COMING OUT ✨OF THE TOMBS after ✨HIS (JESUS’) RESURRECTION they went INTO THE HOLY CITY (Jerusalem) and APPEARED✨📖to many.”

THAT is the FEAST of FIRST FRUITS coming to PASS right there, along with the PASSOVER LAMB Who was SLAIN, being RESURRECTED from His tomb, the Mashiach YESHUA–the LION of the TRIBE of JUDAH (Rev. 5:5) Who
ONE DAY WILL RETURN (Rev. 19:11), because He promised, “Behold, I WILL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW” (Rev. 21:5).

BUT REST ASSURED–ALL things that have been 📖prophesied in the Scriptures by the ✡️MOST HIGH GOD, first MUST come to pass.
That means, ALL that is written in REVELATION 6-18–the 21 JUDGMENTS that will befall this Earth, unfortunately WILL COME TO PASS.

MANY SOULS will be tested to finally accept the Lord Jesus in those days of the AntiChrist’s 7-year reign. BUT–many also will NOT accept the Lord Jesus, and take the Mark of the Beast (Rev. 13:16-17)–when they do that, their souls will perish, and not even the Lord will be able to save them once they side with the AntiChrist.

I know this was LONG, but I want you all to please try and understand how the PIECES of the VERY BIG PUZZLE of the 📖SCRIPTURES can be “put together” to understand it better. The Lord does have His “mysterious ways” about Him–believe 🙄you me, I know. I’m constantly trying to “figure” Him out, and it’s impossible. BUT–because I SEEK HIM as the Scriptures tell us to, He has graciously allowed me to learn things that most have not taken the time out to learn, know, and understand.

BUT–now that I have that knowledge, I must SHARE it. I’m not the only one–that’s for sure, but I am responsible to share what I know, as well as every other child of the King of kings who has been given the responsibility and privilege of studying His Word, especially in the ancient languages.

I pray you and your family have a WONDERFUL and BLESSED rest of PESACH, and RESURRECTION SUNDAY!✡️📖✝️

Mary Answered “Yes” To Her Calling

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Miriam/Mary—a young Jewish woman who was betrothed to Yussef/Joseph, technically married but had not yet consummated the marriage at this point, had every right to ask the angel Gabriel HOW this was to be done to her (Lk 1:34). After all, Mary KNEW what would be done to those women who had children out of wedlock…

BUT putting that fear aside, and TRUSTING in the MOST HIGH GOD El Elyon, who SHE ALREADY RECOGNIZED AS HER SAVIOR, Mary said, “YES” to her CALLING. “Let it be done to me ACCORDING TO THY WILL.”

Can WE act out in the same strength of FAITH and TRUST in God in whatever the Lord has called us to do in this life, that mother Mary that day showed(and later on, Joseph as well to go ahead and trust the Lord in all of this!)?

Can we that proclaim Christ as our Savior and Lord, put our very LIVES on the line, even if it meant certain DEATH?

Mary did. So did Joseph.

Let’s be like MARY, and say, “YES” when the LORD asks us in the VERY near future, to do very hard things—much harder than this world has ever seen.

🙏🏼❤️May we endure to the end as Mary and Joseph did, and who received the honor due them down the millennia of being CHOSEN as the parents of the Most High God’s Son—the Savior of the World, Who WILL RETURN…SOON.✡️📖✝️🕊️

My ZAZZLE Store is OPENED!!

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I finally did it–I opened my online store on Zazzle! It is called, “Faith in the DARK”–of course!

Here are but just a few different items I am selling on Zazzle, pertaining to my WITDWF book series, and plus much more!

When I would go to look for a t-shirt et al with Scripture or some faith message on it, I noticed I had to look far and wide to find such t-shirts. I couldn’t understand how there weren’t enough vendors out there to produce biblically inspirational products. It was a bit frustrating, but then a little over a year and a half ago, I found Zazzle, and a few merchants on there that had what I was looking for! I was thrilled to finally get some t-shirts with some Hebrew or Latin on them, but I wanted more. I wanted to wear certain passages of Scripture as a witness to others of the reliability of God’s Word.

I know it was from the Holy Spirit Who gave me the idea, because I do NOT consider myself “artistic”! I am not gifted with drawing, painting (unless it’s “by the numbers!😂), sculpting, etc. My gifts are in music (singing and playing certain instruments), the ability to “speak in tongues = several languages, but that’s basically where it ends with the “artistic” side of me. So I never thought to do something like create and design products to actually sell.

To be completely honest, I still am not savvy when it comes to all the technical aspects of dealing with this blog page, or even when I am trying to create a post with pics using Quotes Creator, and now my newest addition to helping me create and design items to sell or just for posts–Vecteezy. My “brain power” is basically allotted for all my biblical studies, the dozens of books I have to read to do my homework and research papers ( I have one due at the end of this week–my birthday😫week!), so there isn’t much😂left of me once I get done with another eight-week PhD course!

BUT–I might as well add this here in the blog post now–I will be taking a little “break” from my PhD courses until August, when the Fall semester starts up again. I’ve been going to school full time since September of 2018, and I am TIRED😩! I won’t be sitting around doing nothing–that’s for sure, but the guillotine won’t be hanging over my head as far as discussion posts and papers being due every week. I get to sit back a bit and BREATHE😑, take my time while I DO continue to work and finally FINISH my third and final book in my WITDWF series, as well as working on other book projects!

Also, now that I started this “store” on Zazzle called, “FAITH IN THE DARK”, I can create and design more products to sell that those who like to be a witness to their faith in Christ, can purchase items for themselves, or as gifts for others. Some items for sale are coffee mugs, t-shirts (obviously–and a LOT of them!)–and when I say t-shirts, Zazzle allows you to put it on whatever you’d like–a long sleeve, short-sleeve, tank top, sweatshirt, hoodie, etc. Zazzle encourages us creators to make “collections” of certain designs, so the potential buyer can see what the design would look like on a certain item.

And-not everything I sell has Scripture on it; some people don’t want that, because they may not be a believer, but they do like the picture or design. For example, I have a collection called, “Black-Eyed Susan”–flowers that I just love! I took the pics a couple of years ago, and decided that would be a nice addition as a collection on Zazzle. I made a few example of the pictures on an Ipad cover, print, pillow, and even standard size sheets for the bedroom! Another design is from beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon–I put that on certain items like a clock, desk mat, t-shirt (that one has a Scripture verse on it), and even a trinket tray-a place to put your jewelry.

What I have up on Zazzle right now is just the beginning–I did as much as I could prior to the semester that started mid-January, and I’ve added more almost every night after doing class work, and and sometimes on the weekends. If you go to my Facebook or Instagram pages, you will also see some products there. I’ll get them on the other social media websites as soon as this course is over on March 7th, but I just wanted enough out there for people to see what I am creating and designing, and so that they can help me through one of the more difficult aspects of my FAITH walk–not having a 9-5 “normal” job, BECAUSE of my “calling”, and the Path that the LORD God put me on. It’s not like I am not allowed to make money, but it seems like I really have to “work hard” for that money (just like writing the books!), and the LORD “stretches” me by making me do things like creating these products–something I thought I would never do! Acts 18:3 tells us that Paul was a tent maker; he had to do something in order to support himself, besides ALSO acting on FAITH that others would support him in his work for the LORD.

I hope you enjoy checking out my Zazzle store; please visit it often, because I will be adding new items consistently throughout each and every month. Again, the links here are just a few of the examples of what you will now see in the store. If you ever would like a certain Bible verse or passage on a t-shirt or any other item, please let me know and I will try to accommodate you with that.

Thank you very much in advance! I will continue to alert you with some newer products, and also let you know how my writing projects are coming, and when the third and final book of the series will be released on Amazon. The books also are all “self-published”–I don’t have the thousands of dollars it takes to hand over to a Christian publisher, nor am I “well known” enough for them to even be interested in me. This has ALL been done out of FAITH, TRUST, and OBEDIENCE.

It probably won’t be until May (that’s the “deadline” I’m setting for myself) that my final book in the series is done, and right after that one I’ll try and write and finish a very important book on the Triune Godhead, the sons of God, divine council, and where all this evil in the world most likely came from, hopefully just before school starts up again in August. This book may just end up being part of my dissertation (if I last 😄that long!) for school-the LORD will advise me about that as well when the time comes. Until then–keep walking in the DARK with FAITH, and NEVER let go of His HAND as He is guiding you! God bless!

https://www.zazzle.com/walking_in_the_dark_with_faith_2_corinthians_5_7_giant_coffee_mug-256764249273312397

https://www.zazzle.com/redeemed_psalm_106_10_t_shirt-256101039441188395

https://www.zazzle.com/walk_by_faith_2_corinthians_5_7_t_shirt-256369234936333452

https://www.zazzle.com/give_thanks_to_the_lord_psalm_136_1_t_shirt-256730272582467785

https://www.zazzle.com/the_heavens_declare_silver_plated_necklace-256086791996222273

https://www.zazzle.com/heavens_rainbow_giant_coffee_mug-256278441259712338

https://www.zazzle.com/roses_and_babybreath_throw_pillow-256512150968378525

https://www.zazzle.com/black_eye_susan_throw_pillow-256890107101641962

https://www.zazzle.com/magnificat_luke_1_46_mouse_pad-256526845930665761

Part One of Two YT Videos About the Term, “Word of the LORD”

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https://youtu.be/1Z52AEB7ATo?si=f_Xmk_VvBBQ0GnBu

Please use the link to go check out my latest video regarding the term, “Word of the LORD” that I was led (once again!) to share with you all by the Holy Spirit.

The reason why an additional two videos (this one is Part One) are being made is because the Lord wants everyone to realize just how important it is to take Him at HIS WORD. Even if we do not understand everything that has been written between the OT and NT, nevertheless, there is enough for us TO understand and grow from, and in TIME, with the help of the Holy Spirit, He can teach and guide us into more truth of His Word (Jn. 16:13). But it is US who have to change our way of thinking and/or believing, NOT the LORD God Himself. He does NOT do the changing. If we are NOT believing in or ACCEPTING what the Word of God says, then it is US who will be held accountable and found GUILTY for not taking Him at His Word.

So before I move onto all the other topics that I will cover on my YT channel (and even write about here), the Holy Spirit wanted me to go over several more verses dealing with that specific term. I pray that you will take the time out to go and watch these videos, and also do some study on this yourselves. The more we spend time in God’s holy Word, the more we WILL see the connections He makes between both the OT and NT that SHOW us it IS Him Who is DOING the work, not just speaking it through His Servants. And, it will also help us to go deeper and tackle some of the topics I will be bringing up, like about the spiritual realm, both the angelic and demonic, also about the Divine Council (I share just a bit about that in this video), WHOSE land it really belongs to–WHO did the LORD GOD say in His Word, that HE gave it to?? That’s ANOTHER little example I go through as well, when it comes to learning to take God at His Word, and BELIEVING and ACCEPTING it!

I thank you in advance for watching these videos. Please like, subscribe, and share! God bless!

Part Two of YT Video Uploaded!

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Here is the second part of the Scripture verses that I was sharing, relating to taking God at His Word.

Please take time out to watch it, and I hope you will subscribe to my channel if you have not already. Please also “like” and share the video if you feel led to.

Thank you so much in advance for watching, and joining me on my journey as I walk in the dark with FAITH!

Taking God At His Word Video, Part Two

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Here is the second video from my YT channel, discussing more Scripture verses that deal with how serious it is for us to learn to take God at His Word.

Please watch, like, subscribe and share!

There will be many more videos coming up that will help the viewer understand what God is saying in His Word, because they have learned to take it more seriously than in the past.

Believe me, you’ll need to trust Him and His Word now more than ever, in order to get through all of what is going on in this world today!

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My YT video about Taking God at His Word is up!

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The latest 🖥️video is up on my YT channel!

God’s📖 Word is to be taken SERIOUSLY. From Genesis to Revelation, and every thing in between, the Lord had chosen certain people at certain times in HIStory, to speak of, WRITE DOWN and RECORD His message to His “human imagers”, as the late Dr. Michael Heiser called us (ref. Gen. 1:26-17).

The more we learn to TRUST and OBEY God by reading, studying, praying out, and sharing His Word in our lives, the MORE He will help us understand those passages that are not so easily understood for one reason or another. What seems a “mystery” to many, CAN be understood when one is allowing the LORD to teach and guide them IN His Word.

🙏🏻The ONE MAIN THING that I want you all to “get” is THIS–that the Lord Jesus IS THE LITERAL LIVING 📖WORD of GOD.

✨And if you believe that JESUS IS the WORD OF GOD made flesh, and EMMANUEL-God with us (Jn. 1:1,14; Isaiah 7:14), and Who Paul the Apostle calls “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15), Who WAS THERE in the BEGINNING -BERESHITH (Genesis 1:1; Col. 1:16)–

THEN–you MUST LEARN to TAKE ✨GOD ✨AT HIS 📖WORD!

The HOLY SPIRIT can LEAD and GUIDE you (Jn. 16:13; 14:16-17, 26; 15:26) into ALL the TRUTH of His Word. Just learn to TRUST the LORD (Prov. 3:5-6) with ALL your HEART, and acknowledge Him in ALL your ways–INCLUDING getting to know Him better BY READING and LIVING OUT His 📖WORD.

The MORE you do that, the BETTER your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ will be. AND–with the entire Triune Godhead–the ✡️Father, the ✝️SON, and the Holy 🕊️Spirit.

😊💗May you be blessed as you learn to keep WALKING in the Dark with FAITH, using the LIGHT of CHRIST to LIGHT the WAY!!✡️📖✝️🕊️

Updating My Book Information…

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I had made a couple of posts in the past about the first two or three books I self-published, but somehow I was either amiss or cannot find the post I spoke about the SECOND book in my WITDWF series. I figured I would just make a quick blog post about all of them, and where you could purchase them if you so desired to support me and my writing endeavors.

You can actually go to the Category list on the RIGHT here, and click on “Nett’s Books”, and you will be able to read up on most of what I published. Or, like I said, you can hop onto Amazon and see them for yourself; I have them in three formats—Kindle, Paperback, and also Hard Cover. The illustrated devotional is priced the way it is, because unfortunately I did not realized until I had it all done and ready for publishing, how expensive color printing was going to be! Lesson learned. But it is a nice book, and would make a beautiful gift for someone as well. I would love to do more of those, if I could find a way to make it cheaper in cost.

As I stated, I am a self-published author, because unfortunately I am not well known, nor do I have the thousands of dollars it takes to go through a publishing company, and that’s only IF they decided to publish a person’s book. My books are through Amazon’s KDP Publishing, and I am able to sell them not only on Amazon’s website, but after a while the “door” opened up to also include Barnes and Noble, Thrift Books, and Books a Million’s websites as well.

Being a self-published author, YOU have to do the work of advertising and pushing the sales of your book all by yourself. I was led to believe that Amazon had some help in it, but that wasn’t the case. Of course, if I had the money to do so, I could have hired marketing people to do that for me, but as it was (and still is!) I didn’t have the money for such a luxury. I had to do my own editing (ugh!!) of the book, dealing with how to set it all up on KDP (you need a LOT of patience to do it!), before you finally submit it all for KDP to give it the “green light” to make it go “live” for purchasing.

If a person wanted to “donate” to me, one of the ways you the reader can do it, is by purchasing a physical copy of the book (I do have them on Kindle for purchase as well; the only bad part is when someone does the “Kindle pages”—I only make a few dollars or so with each physical book, and with the page reading, I make much less!😭🥺)—that way you can catch up with the first two books, and/or buy one of the devotionals, and I would be extremely grateful!😊❤️ So much work goes into writing and editing the book, so it would mean the world to me for someone to purchase one of my books.

If you’re not much of a book reader, the “donate” button on the right would also help this out-of-work writer while I continue my online classes at Liberty University for my PhD in Bible Exposition for the next two years (ugh!). Let’s 🙄🙏🏼pray that it won’t be any longer than that!

Once I am able to do so, I will try and have some “subscriber only” content for the steadfast and determined Bible students, which honestly will be videos and some of the more serious topics (like spiritual warfare, dealing with the demonic, rebellious sons of God, Divine Council of God, etc.) that will most likely be part of my dissertation and future books, God willing. I also may either do one or both things concerning my third book in the WITDWF series—share what is in that third installment with those paid subscribers (and the subscription will be no more than $12 or so a year), and/or write the book and put it out there for publishing.

Thank you all so much for visiting my blog page, and either subscribing for the email edition, “liking” and/or commenting on my posts, and if you DO donate one way or the other, may the Lord bless you for being so kind to me. I truly do live the life of a servant of the Lord (God’s doing for sure!), because NONE of them that did in both the OT and NT, had much money; they learned to live by FAITH, and what the Lord provided each and every day to them. It’s not easy, but I know when my time here on Earth is done, it will ✨ETERNALLY be worth it!🙏🏼❤️✡️📖✝️🕊️

NEW YEAR, NEWNESS of LIFE in CHRIST

Jeannette Elizabeth Geist-MarcelliLeave a comment

HAPPY New Year, everyone!

WHAT a year it has BEEN! I don’t know about you all, but the last four months or so were “nail-biting”—not knowing what the LORD God was going to allow the United States to go through—another four years of hell, sending us into a depression (we ARE in a recession NOW), or, would He have an extra dose of MERCY on the U.S, and allow a true leader who cares for our country, to finally (once again) take over?

No one really knew what to think for a while. But thankfully, many people made the right decision on November 5th, and in a few weeks, this nation will be in the hands of President Donald J. Trump once again, with First Lady Melania Trump at his side. Honestly, most of us in this nation (including many who never thought they’d vote for him, but they did because they love this country and the freedoms we have here!) will breath a BIG sigh of relief once the Trumps move back into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

As far as what has been going on SPIRITUALLY, in my short almost-60 years here on this planet, I have NEVER seen so much demonic activity as I have in these last four years!! What an uptick it has been since the time of the “lockdown” in 2020. When you deal with the supernatural as much as I do, you cannot help but notice those type of things. Some exorcists I follow online (FB, YT) have said the same thing—evil has definitely increased, and just because there will be a new “sheriff” in town at the White House, doesn’t mean that those who are propagating that evil, will take a few steps back and cool their jets. Unfortunately, it most likely will be the opposite that happens.

But nevertheless, the LORD GOD MOST HIGH is, and always been, ON His Throne, with His Son, the Lord Jesus at His right Hand, and the Holy Spirit dwelling in His true believers—those who have accepted Him as their Savior and Lord, and allow HIS SPIRIT to rule in and through them.

For those who walk in that “newness of life” in Christ (see pic), we know that ultimately it is HE-the HOLY SPIRIT Who not only reigns IN us, but works THROUGH us (Jn. 16:13; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16; 6:16,19; Gal. 4:6; 2 Tim. 1:14) in many different ways. It is THROUGH US, God’s children, that He works, to get His Word out there to the lost and dying evil world system that has engulfed humanity to the point of the evil ones seeking, killing and destroying (Jn. 10:10) every last one of us, IF those demonic entities could go so far. Thankfully, they cannot, because of the restraining power of the Holy Spirit (2 Thess. 2:6-8) that currently is in this world, UNTIL the “man of sin”—the AntiChrist, is allowed by the LORD God to rule for a short time at the End of Days.

The ONE main thing we children of God must remember on this, the first day of 2025 and going forward into this year, is what the Apostle Paul stated in the above verse from Romans 6:4. Christ’s death on the Cross led to Him being RESURRECTED, so that WE who are His (Ephesians 2:9-10; John 1:12; Galatians 3:26), have also been born again spiritually, (Jn. 3:3,5,7), made into a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), and have His Spirit AND His Word IN us, in order TO keep us from sinning (1Jn. 2:1; Gal. 5:16; Ps. 19:12-13; 119:9-11). THEN, as we grow IN the Lord and have the Holy Spirit rule and reign within us, we WILL be victorious in walking IN that “newness of LIFE” that has been made alive in us by belief and FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ and His 📖Word!❤️

I pray that 2025 will be a renewed time of grace, mercy, peace, health, and prosperity for each and every one of you. And for those who have yet to seek the Lord Jesus out, my prayer for you is that you SEEK and FIND Him TODAY, because when you DO diligently SEEK Him out, you WILL find Him (Deut. 4:29; 1 Chron. 16:11; Ps. 9:10; Jeremiah 29:13; Matt. 6:33; Heb. 11:6). Remember, as it is WRITTEN, “The LORD is GOOD to those who WAIT for Him, to the soul who SEEKS Him” (Lamentations 3:25). It is WHEN we truly SEEK Him we FIND Him, and only then when we will finally walk in that NEWNESS of LIFE in Him here, and for all ✨Eternity✨. 🙏🏼❤️📖✝️